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Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe. — Deepak Chopra

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. — John Steinbeck

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath

Nunca se debe gatear, cuando se tiene el impulso de volar (Never crawl when the impulse is to fly) — Helen Keller

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. — Karl A. Menninger

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. — Eric Hoffer

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. — Emile Souvestre

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out. — John D'Agata

The religious impulse can be very dangerous. It damages, sometimes permanently. — Anthony Burgess

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her. — Henry James

Here were we, drawn together by mutual rage and the impulse toward cooperation, led off into forgetfulness by the establishment of a rude rhythm. — Jack London

I know. For all the planning I was doing to get you to show the people who you are, it turns out you just do it on an impulse. It's so you. — Kiera Cass

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. — Jim Carrey

I unlocked the door and, on impulse, swept Sydney into my arms and carried her inside. — Richelle Mead

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. — Dennis Potter

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound. — Dennis Covington

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you. — Woody Allen

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void. — Shirley Hazzard

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But — Cherie Priest

The war against terror is not really about terror. It's about a superpower's self-destructive impulse toward supremacy, stranglehold, global hemegony. — Arundhati Roy

Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have. — John Steinbeck

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. — Terence

There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable. — Malcolm Gladwell

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. — William James

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. — Rupert Everett

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born! — Candace Wheeler

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs. — Bertrand Russell

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write. — Christy Hall

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse. — Max Nordau

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches. — Gjon Mili

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. — H.L. Mencken

The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back. — Rob Thomas

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. — William Butler Yeats

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal. — Martin Schulz

I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like fun. — Claes Oldenburg

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. — Shoshana Zuboff

Instead of fighting the ego, I align with the evolutionary impulse and I ask myself: What does the evolutionary impulse wants to say or do through me? — Marc Gafni

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence. — Helene Deutsch

People have been cherry-picking the Bible for millennia to justify their every impulse, moral and otherwise. — Sam Harris

This impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist. If — Amanda Palmer

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation. — John Piper

Keeing busy is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. — Joyce Carol Oates

Being frightened is a part of the human experience. It lies beneath every impulse to grow spiritually - to find the roots of fear and pull them. — Gary Zukav

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back. — Laurence Yep

The impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. — Richard Wright

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. — Louis Pasteur

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear. — Richard Jefferies

I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands. — Curtis Sittenfeld

There is strong archaeological evidence to show that with the birth of human consciousness there was born, like a twin, the impulse to transcend it. — Alan McGlashan

I don't believe in God, don't believe in the devil. Unless you want to count my mother. She might be Satan's sister, I suppose. — Ellen Hopkins

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney

Act
on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to your chest. — Ellen Hopkins

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse — Chogyam Trungpa

When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT. — Rhonda Byrne

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen

The habit of stifling an impulse is your conditioned thinking, bent by society's stamp, doing its best to maintain its dominance. — Garry Fitchett

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. — Eric Hoffer

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion. — Idries Shah

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed. — Colin Wilson

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse. — William James

Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have. — Susan Wiggs

Play continually creates demands on the child to act against immediate impulse, i.e., to act according to the line of greatest resistance. — Lev S. Vygotsky

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson

I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads. — Josh Pais

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed. — Karl Jaspers

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God. — Marianne Williamson

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. — Stephen Fry

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse. — Deepak Chopra

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer. — Franz Kafka

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse. — Jackie Gleason

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. — Angus Wilson

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that. — Ann Leckie

The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse. — Laline Paull

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The impulse to win is a valuable thing, right up until you let it make you into a loser. — Tana French

God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring. — Deepak Chopra

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. — Jeanette Winterson

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place. — Charles De Lint

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. — Baltasar Gracian

On impulse, he leaned over and brushed his lips against hers. — Victorine E. Lieske

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. — Philip Larkin

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. — Amy Bloom

Your mind is a book; God is the pen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world. — Edan Lepucki

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. — Upton Sinclair

What is desire?
The impulse to make someone else complete?
That woman would set sodden straw on fire. — Theodore Roethke